The Week in Parliament , Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes :
It was yet another tactical blunder on the part of the official Opposition to postpone their vote of censure on air raid defence until Thursday. No one doubts the importance of the matters raised in Tuesday's discussion on foreign affairs. But after the debate on the Munich Agreement three weeks ago, this was inevitably an anti-climax and members in all parts of the House would have been grateful for an immediate oppor- tunity to express their misgivings on the state of our defence preparations. There were indeed several digressions on this subject. Mr. Boothby in particular analysed the enor- mous sums that have so far been incurred on rearmament and commanded general assent when he argued that the results seemed entirely incommensurate with an expenditure of £I,000,000,000 in four years. The appointment of Sir John Anderson meets with widespread approval, but the Prime Minister's arguments against the setting up of a Ministry of Supply in time of peace do not appear to have carried general conviction even among his own supporters.
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